Sheila Hemami

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Sheila Susann Hemami is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur, the Senior Director for Growth Initiatives at Triple Ring Technologies, a tech incubator and co-development company. [1] Formerly a professor at Cornell University and Northeastern University, her academic expertise is in signal processing. [2]

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Education and career

Hemami majored in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1990. She then went to Stanford University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earned a master's degree in 1992, and completed her Ph.D. in 1994. [2] Her doctoral dissertation, Reconstruction of Compressed Images and Video for Lossy Packet Networks, was supervised by Robert M. Gray. [3]

After working as a researcher at Hewlett Packard Labs, she joined the Cornell University School of Electrical Engineering in 1995, [2] and was Kodak Term Assistant Professor there from 1996 to 1999. [4] Cornell promoted her to full professor in 2006, as the first woman in the university's School of Electrical Engineering to receive this level of promotion. [5] She chaired the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee in 2006 and 2007, and was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2008 to 2010. She moved to Northeastern University in Boston in 2013, as chair of its Department of Electrical Engineering. [2]

In 2016, Hemami moved to non-profit technology developer Draper Laboratory as Director of Strategic Technical Opportunities, changing her focus to global challenges involving the environment and sustainability. [6] She moved again to her present position at Triple Ring Technologies in 2021. [7]

Recognition

In 2000, Hemami was the recipient of the Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, an annual national award for electrical and computer engineering education. [8]

She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2009, "for contributions to robust and perceptual image and video communications". [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Sheila Hemami, PhD", Team, Triple Ring Technologies, retrieved 2024-07-10
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Sheila S. Hemami", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, August 6, 2013, retrieved 2024-07-10
  3. ↑ Sheila Hemami at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "Prof. Sheila Hemami", CSL Student Conference 2011 Invited Speakers, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Coordinated Science Laboratory, retrieved 2024-07-10
  5. ↑ Hemami promoted to Full Professor, Cornell School of Electrical Engineering, November 1, 2006, retrieved 2024-07-10
  6. ↑ Ghoraani, Behnaz (November 2019), "Series to Highlight Women in Signal Processing: Sheila S. Hemami", Inside Signal Processing Newsletter, IEEE Signal Processing Society, retrieved 2024-07-10
  7. ↑ Triple Ring Technologies Announces the Hiring Of Dr. Sheila Hemami and Partnership With General Inception (Press release), Triple Ring Technologies, June 23, 2021, retrieved 2024-07-10– via PR Newswire
  8. ↑ C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, Eta Kappa Nu, retrieved 2024-07-10
  9. ↑ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2024-07-10
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